The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-16
THE: EXTRACTS.
SEASGu1, Jan. 6, 1897.

THE EXTRACTS.
SEAxGu1, Jan. 6, 1887.
1t is certainly place Of fine dress
ing and social enjoyment / have
never seen anywhere better dressing
or entertainments. Life here to a
majority, appears to be a round Of
pleasure. Even tie business hours
are so arranged as to permit OF pleas
ure and exercise. As to the latter. it
IS well enough, for the climate re-
ouires It. Willie we arc nearly on the
sane parallel oi latitude as at home,
there is danpness III the atmosphere
which makes it more enervating III
the summer and much colder ii the
winter. Thus far the fall and winter
! have been all that could be desired,
but we will have very cola weather
(thev Inform us) shortly. We lave
received great deal of kindness from
every one, and are beginning to feel
quite at home. We made the trlp so
much more pleasantly a.d comfort
ably and quicker than we expected,
that really it does not seem half the
distance It did. and then we founl
such pleasure in our Japan experience
and such 4 different State of things
when we got here from what we ez-
pected, that we have been most agree
IDLY surprised Take tie Chinese
away and YOU cannct tell the differ
ence between Shangiji and any Eu-
ropean o. American city. it is not ct
course fair sample OF the East for by
common consent it IS conceded to be
the place of the East, il wealth, REIN
ment, living, and hospitality, and hence
the Gisconforts of loneliness, and
scantv times, foreigners experience in
a ma jority OF places out here, are not
found in it. No one at home can have
just conception of it, nor has any de-
scription of it read in books of China,
conveyed proper one OF it. The ab-
sence OF old friends aud associates,
and the anxiety for fear bad news may
come, combine to make US ANXIOUS,
but otherwise we could not be more
pleasantly situated 1t is not home,
bat next to it, and we feel very CRATE
full to kind Providence for our sur
roundiues. We might lie much worse
Of. And then we know how hard the
times are in dear old Carolina, and
feel that Wiz prudence there IS COM
Portable livins lere.
The Chinese plant their cotton
broadcast and with land as rich as the
Watelee stiff; lands. fertillZed to the
highest degree, it takes, | should say,
twenty acres to make one of our bales.
The stalks are not over four feet high
at best, and the bolls are very small
and not more than three or four on a
stalk. They grow crop of wheat on
the same land AMI before the wheat IS
ready to cut, SOW their cotton broad
cast on it, and the cotton begins to
come up and Wien the wheat IS taken
of, there it is, as thick as YOU please.
They have so many canals in their
fields that they irrigate al the
land they plant Their rice culture
is very neat and thorough and the
yieid very good, although the grain is
s,r.: Ia this Province Of 3,oOO,OO0
people RICE is the principle product,
and diet. They are superb gardeners,
and in his as nearly everything else,
make two crops ina year. They are
so crowded that every foot OF land not
taken up with lanes is made to count.
As to poor, it may be. called the land
OF the dead; you see them everywhere
and on all sides and when they are
either 100 poor to have land to bury
their dead, or the soothsayers tell
them it is not an auspicious time to
bury, they place tie cotfins on the
ground and on any road YOU go, you
see numbers and numbers of collins
exposed awaiting burial.
1t is great country for game; and
you can get ducks, phesants, quail,
snipe, wild turkeys, and the fish are
very fine and oysters pretty fair.
Ladies goods, except silks are high.
Mems cheap.
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